The First half of November 2011

November went by in a blur.  I really have no idea where all the time went (besides gone) so I am going to be doing some major catch up posts.

In the past two months Vivian has really started to enjoy the times when we read books to Christian and has actually patiently waited for us to turn the pages rather than getting impatient and trying to turn them all herself as quickly as possible.  She still gets a little impatient but there is a difference between night and day where we are at right now.

Here’s a colorful photo of Jared reading in Christian’s bed with the two (love the finger by the nose Christian)…Vivian’s smile was so sweet I choose to ignore the weirdness in this photo and post it.

Jared probably read this book three times in a row that night, she kept wanting to hear it “again”.

One very fun activity in November was the day of Christian’s first class field trip to the farm.  I was a volunteer and Christian was super excited to have me come with him.  Here’s a photo of him with his trip-buddy Kyla who is pretty much the opposite of him personality-wise.

At the farm, they had a big pile of hay bales that the kids started jumping off of for fun.  Do you recognize the kid flying through the air?  Yep.  That’d be Christian.  Fearless as always.

Now he’s running to get right back in line.

Here is Maya, Kyla and Christian on the hayride.

Christian was very excited to feed the goats!

This was the only thing that Christian acted at all nervous about: Holding the chicken.

When I asked Christian what holding a chicken felt like he said “It felt too light!”

Here is Christian surrounded by girls again.  This is the classroom where the farmers told the kids a little about the cows and how they take care of them.  It was interesting to learn that they put a magnet inside every cow to catch all the of the nails and metal things that they may swallow during their lives to prevent sharp things from going through their digestive track.  I wonder if my nickel allergy has anything to do with my intolerance to milk…?

Christian and I had a grand time on his class trip.  The only thing that was kind of sad is that his teacher Mrs. Varner didn’t get to go because she had a teacher meeting.  I took lots of photos of the trip and sent her a little smilebox slideshow of it.  I didn’t think it was a big deal but because of that, Christian’s teacher has since asked me to help put together the end of the year slideshow for the whole kindergarten.  Yikes.

This next photo was from later that day when Vivian was sitting on the steps looking at a book and Christian was really sweet and started reading to her so I snuck up and took a photo.